Re: PentiumII's.

Lai Zit Seng (lzs@pobox.com)
Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:03:18 +0800 (SGT)


On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, System Email wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Mitch Davis wrote:

> > System Email wrote:
> > > Does linux support PentiumII's (does it work?)
> >
> > A friend of mine bought a single processor 266MHz P2 to use as a
> > web cache server. He has had no problems with it, running 2.0.28.
> > The cache server gets 1 Megahits per day.

> How does it comapre to a PPRO 200? :)

Yes, I'm interested too. I'm looking for all-round performance. That would
mean the Pentium-II if necessary. But if Linux doesn't make much use of
MMX, and given the Pentium Pro's integrated L2 cache, perhaps the Pentium
Pro might prove to be a better choice. Most of the benchmarks I've seen
are Windows based, so they're probably not very useful to guage
performance under Linux.

.lzs